A thin magnetic stripe (magstripe) is all that stands between your credit card information and the bad guys.

你的信用卡信息和坏人之间只隔着一个薄磁条。

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Since then, most European nations as well as Japan and Canada have adopted this so-called EMV international credit card standard and abandoned magnetic stripe credit cards for chip-and-pin cards in the process.

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The best design for a mobile credit-card reader is to embed the encryption function into the actual magnetic stripe hardware.

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